Niall has been busy at work on his remote scheduling application “Big Screen EPG by Remote” , the new build adds a preview of the iPhone UI which adds the mobile pieces to equation. This means that when you will be able to browse the EPG and schedule recordings from an iPhone  (Niall says that it should work on any webkit based browser eg Android)

Niall is also planning to add streaming of live TV to the Silverlight app so this app could really bring us back to Webguid functionality, the new build also fixes authentication problem and other fixes:

Last night I released an update to ‘by Remote’ which has a few new fixes – plus an early preview of the iPhone/iPad browser based access. The changes were all done on the inbuilt server (actual Silverlight UI changes/fixes will appear in next version).
The new release is available from the same download page you got v0.5d from.

The fixes for v0.5e include :

  • Authentication problems fixed – in v0.5d it kept asking for your username/password – now this is working properly (and your authentication information is retained for entire session).
  • Media Center Recording Defaults observed – when scheduling series and one time recordings it now uses the ‘recording defaults’ you’ve set in Media Center (including pre/post padding, channel, language, keep until and repeat settings). There’s also an switch (in the config) which allows you to override the ‘Where Possible’ post padding setting with an actual Hard padding (which is an annoying limitation in 7MC) – ie. when enabled if you had ‘Where Possible – Stop after 30 minutes’ this will be translated to ‘Stop after 30 minutes’.
  • Channel Sorting by Display Channel Number – when using the Silverlight UI – channels are now sorted by the Display Channel Number so it should directly reflect the channel order you have in 7MC (which is most important for US users and people with loads of channels). However note that it’s not yet observing the ‘sort by channel name’ guide option if you are using that (hopefully will implement this in future version).

Screenshots from the iPhone client

mainmenu proginfo nowshowing

bychannel Layer_5 scheduled

 

Head over to Niall’s blog for all the details

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